Cameron Herold, clinically diagnosed with 17 of 18 ADD symptoms and dyscalculia, manages without medication by rapid task offloading and delegation. He frames his ADD as a superpower for spotting market gaps and business problems that others miss.
Questions this video answers
August 27, 2023
17 of the 18 signs of ADD
Dyscalculia (he flips numbers around)
11 of the 11 traits of bipolar disorder
No — he says he is not on medication for his attention deficit disorder
Chapters
My ADD is actually a superpower.
It's one of the things that allows.
Me to see what's happening with my market, the customers, my suppliers, my employees. I notice problems with the website, I notice little trends with marketing, and I really see everything around me that's happening.
So one of the questions that I'm.
Often asked is what medication I'm on to help me with my attention deficit disorder. And as many of you have heard or have read, I have 17 of the 18 signs of ADD clinically diagnosed. I've also been diagnosed with something called dyscalcia, which is a form of dyslexia, where I flip all my numbers around. So related to add, and then also been diagnosed with on the spectrum for Bipolar, I've got 11 of the 11 traits of bipolar disorder.
So in terms of what medication I'm on though, and how do I control.
My attention deficit disorder, I'm not on medication for it. What I recognized is that as an entrepreneur, my ADD is actually a superpower.
It's one of the things that allows.
Me to see what's happening with my market, the customers, my suppliers, my employees. I notice problems with the website, I notice little trends with marketing, and I really see everything around me that's happening. Now.
If I was an engineer or a doctor or a lawyer, I'd probably need to be medicated for the ADD because I need to be way more hyper focused. But we don't see a lot of doctors or engineers or lawyers that are fantastic as entrepreneurs because they miss the.
Point, they miss the bigger picture. Right?
So we've heard the whole thing. You can't see the forest for the trees. Well, the reality is entrepreneurs can not only see the forest and the trees, we can see all the leaves and all the little bugs in the forest.
We see everything around us, and that's actually a superpower.
So I don't want that to be medicated away.
What I like to be able to.
Do is notice everything and then use some level of either prioritization or delegation, which are two of the actual modules in my invest in your leaders course.
And what I try to do is actually get the stuff off my plate quickly and then help the team prioritize it so they can work on the critical few things versus the important many. But the ADD that I have is absolutely one of my superpowers, and it's absolutely something I would never want to be medicated away.
